Palestine calls for emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council for “international protection”
In a written statement, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki demanded an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council after Israeli forces attacked the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, in which 11 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 injured.
In the statement, Maliki said: “We demand that Israel be condemned for the massacres committed against the Palestinians, the latest in Nablus, and that the Palestinians receive international protection.” he used his statements.
Noting that they called for an urgent meeting of the Arab League and the OIC, Maliki noted that they wanted the member states of these organizations to condemn Israel and support the Palestinian demand for international protection.
Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), affirmed that the Palestinian administration decided to go to the United Nations Security Council to demand international protection for its citizens in the face of the crimes that Israel continues to commit. .
CALL FROM PALESTINE TO THE EU
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtiyya called on the European Union (EU) to “put an end to the policy of double standards that encourages Israel to continue its attacks.”
According to the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, Shtiyya received a delegation from the European Parliament headed by Margrete Auken, responsible for relations with Palestine, at his office in Ramallah. The EU representative in Palestine, Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff, was also present at the meeting.
Shtiyya briefed the delegation on “the increasing violations by the invaders against the Palestinians and the latest of these, the massacre in Nablus.”
Palestinian Prime Minister Shtiya called on the European Union (EU) to “end the policy of double standards that encourages Israel to continue its attacks and take punitive measures to stop Israel’s violations of international law in Palestine.” “.
Calling on the European Union to recognize the Palestinian state, Shtiya accused Israel of trying to prevent the visit of the European Parliament delegation to Palestine by detaining and deporting a Spanish lawmaker and not issuing a travel visa to another member of the delegation.
Shtiyya stressed that this behavior “is unacceptable and Israel must not be allowed to be above the law.”
The members of the European delegation also stressed that the EU and its countries believe in the “principle of the two-state solution aimed at establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders.”
MASSACRE OF THE ISRAEL ARMY IN NABLUS
Israeli forces stormed the northern West Bank city of Nablus from several points this morning.
Surrounding a house in the historic Old City of Nablus, Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at Palestinians protesting the raid, killing 11 Palestinians, including a child, and wounding more than 100 Palestinians, 6 seriously. (AA)